Grand Canyon Cloud Inversion: How Fog Fills the Canyon in Winter
On rare winter mornings the Grand Canyon disappears. Cold, saturated air fills the gorge with a sea of white cloud, and the buttes and templ...
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United States: Mountains, Snow & Nature
Explore the United States through mountain photography, winter weather and stories from the natural world. Browse the country archive, then discover Grand Canyon landscapes, skiing films and more scenes shaped by snow.
Northern Lights Destinations: 10 Places to See the Aurora Borealis
The northern lights shine brightest in a ring around the Arctic, the auroral zone centred near 67° north. Put yourself under that ring betwe...
Amtrak Train Hits Snow at Rhinecliff: Nick Colvin’s Slow-Motion Video
A southbound Amtrak train sweeps into Rhinecliff station, New York, and meets a track buried under fresh snow. In Nick Colvin’s slow-motion...
Figure Skating on a Frozen Mountain Lake: Katrina Lazzarotto in BC
A skater glides across black, glassy ice while snow-covered peaks rise all around and repeat themselves in the reflection. In early 2016 he...
Lake Superior Ice Stacking: Glassy Ice Plates at Duluth’s Brighton Beach
Lake Superior can sound like a cupboard full of breaking glass when its ice starts to move. On 13 February 2016 Dawn M. LaPointe of Radiant...
Boston Street Skiing: Clayton Vila and Cam Riley in the Record 2015 Winter
In the winter of 2015 Boston was buried under the heaviest snow in its recorded history, and two young skiers treated the city as a terrain...
Sloan Henderson: The 14-Month-Old Snowboarder of Park City, Utah
Sloan Henderson was 14 months old, had only just learned to walk, and was already riding a snowboard. In January 2016 her parents filmed he...
Finn’s Snow Maze: A Puppy’s Backyard Paths After the 2016 Blizzard
For a small dog, a foot of fresh snow turns the garden into a wall. When that much fell on Great Neck, New York, in January 2016, Finn’s ow...
Light Pillars: How Ice Crystals Turn Streetlights into Columns of Light
On a bitterly cold night, the lights of a town can suddenly send tall columns of colour straight up into the sky. Blue, yellow and white sh...
Brooklyn Igloo on Airbnb: The $200 Snow Shelter of the 2016 Blizzard
When the January 2016 blizzard buried New York under a record 27.5 inches of snow, Brooklyn art director Patrick M. Horton and his roommate...
Casey Neistat Snowboarding New York: The 2016 Blizzard Film
On January 23, 2016, New York City was buried under the deepest snowfall in its recorded history, and its roads were closed to traffic. The...
Frozen Flowers in Minnesota: Why Petals Shatter After a Night Outside
Leave a bouquet on a Minnesota porch on a January night and by morning it shatters like glass. That is the whole idea behind “Frozen Flower...
19 Winter Landscapes Around the World: Peyto Lake to Shirakawa-go
Snow turns familiar places into new ones. These nineteen winter landscapes run from a snowy street in Liverpool and frosted riverbanks in B...
Bartz Brothers’ Snow Sculptures: Octavius the Octopus and Sharky the Shark
Every winter, the Bartz brothers of Minnesota turn the snow in their front yard into a giant sea creature. In 2016 it was Octavius the Octop...
Ten Winter City Breaks: Chicago, Québec, Prague, Bern, Tromsø and More
Some cities are at their best when the temperature drops: skating rinks appear in the squares, markets glow in the early dark and old stree...
Deaf Man Rescues Deer From Minnesota's Kettle River: Miss Ice River
In the last days of December 2015, Steven Peterson, a 50-year-old deaf man from Duluth, Minnesota, was driving through northern Pine County...
Born Wild: Three Adventure Moms Climbing and Camping with Their Kids
Three young mothers, Brooke Froelich, Morgan Brechler and Shannon Robertson, refused to give up climbing, camping and backpacking when they...
Ten Fun Winter Sports to Try Beyond Skiing, from Sledging to Luge
Skiing is only the start of what snow and ice can offer. From a floodlit Swiss sled run to a dog team in Greenland, these ten winter sports...
Ian McIntosh's 1,600-Foot Fall in Alaska's Neacola Mountains
On one of his first turns down a steep face in Alaska's Neacola Mountains, professional skier Ian McIntosh dropped into a trench he coul...
10 Alaska Facts: Size, Mountains, Glaciers, Coastline and Wild Plants
Alaska is America's great northern frontier: a state so big that its east–west span reaches 2,400 miles, with more than three million la...